Honduras News

Several businesses in the tourist town of Santa Lucia are now accepting Bitcoin payments in the hopes it can spur tourism spending.

Some residents have reportedly told the crypto-friendly city of Próspera to “go home” following the Honduran government’s repeal of the ZEDE legislation which enabled it.

How a small-scale Bitcoin education project involving a former brewery collided with plans for Bitcoin as de facto legal tender.

The central bank said, “for the time being,” that Bitcoin was not regulated in the country but is exploring the feasibility of introducing a CBDC.

Honduras and Guatemala are studying central bank digital currencies and the value they could bring to their respective monetary systems.

A new bill in Panama aims to recognize Bitcoin as an alternative payment method and enable freedom to use crypto.

The “la bitcoinera” machine allows crypto enthusiasts to purchase BTC and ETH using the local fiat currency provided they are willing to scan their IDs and disclose certain personal information.

Medici-backed agritech blockchain startup GrainChain plans to unite the coffee industry of Honduras with its platform.

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The government of Honduras will partner with Houston-based Bitcoin 2.0 startups Factom and Epigraph to build a land registry database for the Central American nation using the Bitcoin blockchain.

Honduran Mercario partners up with American Mimetic Markets to launch the first Bitcoin exchange in Honduras.

The Eléutera Foundation was formed in Honduras in 2013 and promotes the ideas of classical liberalism, or “social and economic liberty” as the Foundation explains. They announced Tuesday that they’ve partnered with the software developer Mimetic Markets to increase Bitcoin accessibility to residents of Honduras.